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white Stained with red ; spores globose, pale ochraceous, .0003-.0004 

 of an inch long. 



Pileus 1-1.5 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 3-5 Hnes thick. 



Woods. Albany and Saratoga counties. July. 



This is by some considered a variety ofR. puell-aris Fr. 

 The red color of the stem when viewed under a lens is seen to be 

 due to minute red particles or a rosy mealiness. 



Russula abietina Pk. 



FIR TREE RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Rep't 54. 1901. p. 180, pi. 7, fig. i-ii. 



Pileus thin, fragile, convex becoming plane or slightly depressed 

 in the center, covered with a viscid separable pellicle, tuberculose 

 striate on the thin margin, variable in color, purplish, greenish 

 purple or olive-green with a brown or blackish center, or sometimes 

 purplish with a greenish center, flesh white, taste mild; lamellae 

 narrowed toward the stem, subdistant, equal, rounded behind and 

 nearly free, ventricose, whitish becoming pale yellow ; stem equal 

 or tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, white ; spores bright yellow- 

 ish ochraceous, subglobose, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, nearly or 

 quite as broad. 



Pileus 1-2.5 iriches broad ; stem 1-2.5 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Under balsam fir trees. Essex county. July and August. Edible. 



The species is closely related to R. turci Bres. from which I 

 have separated it because of its paler lamellae and the absence of 

 cystidia from the lamellae and of minute areolae from the pileus and 

 because of the presence of greenish and olive-green colors in the 

 pileus. Its place of growth is only under balsam fir trees, Abies 

 b a 1 s a m e a (L.) Mill, so far as it has been observed. 



Russula turci Bres. 



TURC RUSSULA 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex becoming plane or centrally depressed, 

 viscid, striate on the margin when mature, reddish violaceous or 

 lilac-purple, darker or blackish in the center, sometimes becoming 

 yellowish in age and minutely areolate, flesh white or whitish, taste 

 mild; lamellae equal, subclose, rounded behind, free, pallid when 

 young, soon ochraceous, interspaces venose; stem equal or tapering 

 upwards, rugulose, soon cavernous or hollow, fragile, white ; spores 

 ochraceous, globose, echinulate, .0003-00035 of an inch in diameter. 



Pileus 1.5-3 inches broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, 3-6 lines thick. 



